Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB on the Go: The Surprising Difference Between Div. 2 College and MLB Postseason, By Otto Kemp
04 Oct 2025
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Chapter 1: What is the biggest difference between Division 2 college baseball and MLB postseason?
Yeah, there should be some passion. This doesn't have to be boring.
There's no human being I'd rather be talking to more than AutoChamp right now. So it's a simple question. I asked this of guys who have played in college, especially D2 colleges. What is the biggest game that you had played in? Because, spoiler, there's going to get bigger.
I think the biggest game I played in was Division II National Championship. Okay. So far. That's pretty good. But it didn't really feel that big because we played at 10 in the morning. And then we won to get into that national championship game, and then we played at 7 p.m. So we played at 10 a.m., went back to the hotel, slept, and show and go for the national championship.
So it didn't really feel like a national championship game, if I'm being honest.
Chapter 2: How did Otto Kemp prepare for the national championship game?
There's a lot of things I don't want to pick through. So you had to win in the morning, right? We had to win in the morning. We won in the morning, and then we started that night. We started a three-game series, and then we ended up losing that. We would have had to beat them twice. There's a reason I'm going to ask.
What was the park? Where were we?
We were at the USA Facilities in North Carolina. It does not have a third deck. It doesn't have a third deck? No, I'm asking. It does not have a third deck. That's my point.
Chapter 3: What was Otto's experience like during the MLB postseason?
Only one row.
oh one deck one deck yeah one one level yeah so like yeah there were maybe 400 people i built it really is that true yeah i've actually covered a division two elite eight basketball game but that's that's a whole nother podcast uh so between so you said that like it seems sort of surreal that you're just playing what did you do in that time before between i know this is
By the way, spoiler alert, you don't have to do that. You don't have to plan to get a doubleheader in the same day in the playoffs. What did I do in between?
Chapter 4: How does the atmosphere differ between college and professional baseball?
Yeah. What was it? What was a day leading in?
Like, did you like, okay, we got to lower our heart rates or like before that national championship? Yeah. Before the, after you won the first one, it was like, I mean, it was middle of the summer in, uh, or the beginning of the summer in North Carolina. So it was hot. So we played and finished about one and we got, went back, ate some lunch, showered.
I think I took like a two hour nap and then we were on the bus. And then we warmed up and played the game.
Chapter 5: What strategies does Otto use to manage pressure in high-stakes games?
So it was like we showed up about 5.30 for the 7 o'clock game. Really? And at that time, my hand was broken, so I wasn't doing much to prepare. I was going out and playing anyway.
Nap is the best. By the way, the reality of you being able to take a two-hour nap is kind of next level for me.
Yeah, I mean, I'm a trained sleeper now. I can sleep whenever.
you need me to go fall asleep in five minutes i can do that so okay so this is the last sale so this this all leads you i'm i'm gonna hype you up now of say this is how that prepared you for this because you were able to lower your heart rate and this is what it's all about yeah sure you have the third deck and you have like the massive amount of media you have all this stuff you don't have all this stuff you're not eating bologna sandwiches you know before the game
But to me, watching you from afar, talking to you, it feels like you understand, okay, when you go in the field,
clear the mechanism right for sure I think the way my mind sees it is it's all just noise and the more you let yourself kind of give that noise power the more the power that it has over you so I think this is a game where I've learned that it's really just about slowing yourself down and knowing that these 45,000 people here are going to elevate me and it's going to make make me want to go and want to go and go and go but
this isn't a game that when you try harder and you try and be faster and try and do all these things you do better it's really the opposite so so for me it's just really honing into what I know I do and what I know and controlling my heartbeat and knowing that I've trained for the last my lifetime for this moment so that's awesome it's it'll all come together I just have to go out there and
compete i was talking to tanner banks and he was we're talking about what's the best speech anyone give it's like it doesn't the rudy and the stool speeches in football don't work yeah because it's like in football you get the speech and you're gonna go jack someone up right this is like you have to slow everything down yeah that's what it's about i think the more your the brain wants to go fast and the more you can kind of control that and control your heartbeat like i said and slow yourself down the better off you're going to be the
call them cool and collected. Those are the guys that make those game-saving plays or just catch that ball to eliminate a free 90 or whatever it may be just to kind of simplify and try and do the small things right.
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Chapter 6: What lessons can be learned from Otto's journey from college to MLB?
At the end of the day, the rest is going to take care of itself. You've got to be jacked up.
All right, thank you, man. I appreciate it.
You got it.